Russian Court Shuts Down University That Offered Politically Sensitive Courses

By Anna Nemtsova

Moscow

A Russian court has ordered a university that receives support
from Western organizations and had offered courses in election
monitoring to shut down immediately, in what professors said was
the first time an entire university had been closed for political
reasons under President Vladimir V. Putin.

The ruling, issued by a court in St. Petersburg on Friday, shut
down the European University of St. Petersburg just as a new
semester was about to start and after many of the 170